Denard Robinson (16) celebrates with fellow Michigan students following the Wolverines' 30-10 win over Connecticut at Michigan Stadium on Saturday.

Lon Horwedel | AnnArbor.com

Week 1 of the Michigan football season is in the books, and by almost every measure imaginable it had to be considered a success.

A renovated Michigan Stadium received rave reviews and a fireworks-and-flyover opening ceremony, a world record number of fans packed the joint and kickoff was preceded by an emotional walk to midfield by a young man never expected to walk again.

Oh yeah ... and then there was what took place on the field, a 30-10 Michigan win.

Quarterback controversy? Denard Robinson ended that with a record-breaking performance. A sieve-like defense? Inexperienced players stepped up and held the UConn offense to 10 points.

Storylines were everywhere, and AnnArbor.com had plenty of reporters, photographers and videographers capturing the action. Here's everything we compiled wrapped into one neat little package:

GAME INTERACTIVE
â€¢ Our live chat was, well, lively -- filled with RichRod vitriol even as his team was winning convincingly. There were a few happy campers, too. Check out the transcript here and plan to join us for a live chat during every game. Home and away.

Comments

Brian

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 : 11:12 a.m.

A great and inspirational rededication ceremony, a great showing by the team, and much reason for hope, if not optimism. Many fans are absolutely giddy. UConn may have been overrated, but so what. Based on the past couple of seasons, we should savor this victory, not for the typical 24 hours, but at least until 3:29PM on Saturday afternoon, which hopefully, will be another step towards a memorable season. Congrats on an excellent day, and GO BLUE!

Valtski

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 10:13 p.m.

Great Link Dwayne. I got some good laughs out of that one. I don't like to gloat, but sometimes overly cocky people need to be exposed. Its hard to believe they take this Dez guy seriously out east. What a schmuck.

Tom Joad

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 10:13 p.m.

UConn is community college level football... let's hold off the applause until after the Notre Dame game

Tag

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 8:35 p.m.

I know this AnnArbor.com. I know UM is THE story and I too am a HUGE UM fan, but I actually graduated from the small green and white school down the street, Eastern. I even checked the Ypsilanti and township page for coverage and as of 6:30pm Sunday night still nothing, nada, zip, zilch. As the "online resource" for Washtenaw county news I think it's disrespectful of AnnArbor.com to have not covered EMU sports whatsoever. BTW Eastern Michigan's home opener vs. Army; they played a pretty good game and lost at the end 31-27.

king

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 8 p.m.

Thanks Dwayne. Great link. How many times did he say "didn't see this coming"

Dwayne

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 6:23 p.m.

Okay, enough of all the seriousness, time to enjoy the victory. Found this last night on the UConn paper, very fun to read from the beginning, knowing the outcome. Enjoy. http://blogs.courant.com/uconn_football/2010/09/live-uconnmichigan-chat-kicks.html

buckeyebob

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 2:42 p.m.

Great win over the UConn "huskies" coach Rod. A couple of more of these and we'll forgive you stiffing folks on contracts you sign; heck beat OSU and you can survive 3-4 NCAA investigations. Everyone loves winner... t

PortageLkBlu

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 1:50 p.m.

Rob Roy there is no bar, look boys and girls this isn't a battle in Afghanistan this is entertainment and Michigan won their first game against a predicted decent team in their refurbished fantastically beautiful stadium and that is all there is to it. It was entertaining to say the least my family thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and we all felt a great amount of pleasure at the win thank you very much. Do I think that Mich. will win all there games this year, maybe not but I do think there is another decent team in the big ten and I think Mich. got the attention of a few big ten teams. I will predict that Tate will get playing time this year. I don't know if this young man is very mature but at some point he could very well be needed to step up to the plate and when he's needed I hope he's ready. QB requires dedication and it looks to me like Robinson worked very hard at improving his play and I hope Tate is paying attention.

RobRoy

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 11:24 a.m.

Call me cynical, but before everyone starts predicting a BCS chance for Michigan, I'd like to see DR perform against a Big Ten school before getting my hopes up. Its UCONN, not Ohio St people. Have we set the bar that low? lol

PortageLkBlu

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 7:19 a.m.

We got the barbecu fired up, Ribs, sausage and corn combined with an entertaining game, what a nice Saturday and that boys and girls is all you can ask for of our Michigan Wolverines.

king

Sun, Sep 5, 2010 : 5:54 a.m.

I figured Tom Brady would have enough to do this weekend but he obviously snuck in the UM/UCONN game as he is seen grabbing DRob's jersey in above picture.